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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:07:05 -0500
From: Malcolm <mwm1XXXnopsamedu>
Subject: Re: winter tyres with rims


On 25 Oct 2003 13:14:05 GMT, Dave Hinz <davehinznopsamcop.net> wrote: >On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 02:20:34 -0400, Malcolm <mwm1XXXnopsamedu> wrote: >> >> Like it or not the reality is that English has displace the only other >> language which had any claim to being a lingua franca i.e. French. > >Based on the content of the post, he should have used Spamish. Just another small commentregarding the universality of English. I have actually observed, in Switzerland, three Swiss in a "heated discussion" , each of whom spoke a different mother tongue, conducting their "discussion" in English in which all three were very fluent. Later I asked of one of them, a more personal friend, why the discussion did not take place in French, German, Italian, or Romanche(sp?) ? My collegue informed me that it happens all the time. That there is a "type" who will not give the other guy the satisfaction of using that guys language. The universal language, English, is used . That way no one is given advantage (or satifaction). One does have to admit that, at least in the literary sense, English has the richest vocabulary. Yet, it was not that long ago, just a little prior to my university years, that, at least in North America, if you intended to major or specialize in chemistry one presumed a need for a reasonable fluency in German.

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